Children should learn to code because it may give them a way of seeing the world where enforcement of legislation can be result of coding which can have the programmer's prejudices, unfairness, and inhumanity built into it.

I would be worried if the bots began to refer to articles they or other bots had generated in the past. They could simulate having an existence and shared experiences.

Another misleading way of describing a statistic is to call the pandemic a 1 in 100 year event. This is misleading as statistics used to describe unpredictable events are average return intervals, or similar measures. An event with an average return interval of 1 in 100 years is a figure derived from historical observations and refers to the likelihood of the event occurring in any one year. The average return interval of a particular event is not necessarily recalculated at regular intervals. This seems reasonable if the average return interval is used in legislation regulating products and activities. Industries and individuals require some degree of certainty that the legislated standards that they are required to conform to aren't constantly changing. Describing the likelihood of these events reoccurring without calling them average return intervals (or whatever they designated as) makes people complacent or gives politicians a convenient excuse for inaction when they can think of the likelihood of an event not reoccurring for another 100 years.